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...pool profits with his ri val two years later, he and his heirs have endorsed local editorial control, and the paper's strident voice has been retained: cartoons depict Communist leaders with hands dripping blood; editorials have termed U.S. District Judge William Hungate, who ordered citywide school desegregation, "Attila the Hungate...
Henry E. Catto, Assistant Defense Secretary until he resigned in September, wrote after Grenada: "Unhappily, the average Joint Chiefs of Staff member has all the public relations sense of Attila the Hun. And deep in his psyche is a feeling that the press cost lives, reputations and indeed victory by its access and reporting in Viet Nam." That unhappy war will continue to haunt history as long as the wrong lessons are drawn from it. There are better precedents...
...from the sea and air? Do we beef up our forces and send in an additional 10,000 or 20,000 Marines? Or do we simply throw up our hands and leave, allowing the various sides to continue what they have been unable to resolve since the days of Attila the Hun? It is difficult to imagine the United States pulling out under those circumstances, losing more prestige, power and influence abroad. This, it appears, is the quagmire...
PANEL: "Health Risks of Nuclear and Alternative Energy Technologies"; Dr. Rosalyn S. Yalow, Anne P. Carter, Miro M. Todorovich, Bernard L. Cohen, Dr. Edward W. Webster and Attila O. Klein; Gerstanzang Science Auditorium; Thursday...
...rotters guilty of sins even more grievous than wearing brown shoes with a blue suit. The envelope, please. In chronological order: Caligula, despotic Emperor of Rome from A.D. 37 to 41; Nero, full-time Emperor and sometime violinist who struck sour notes in Rome from 54 to 68; Attila the Hun, who led his barbaric tribe from 433 to 453; Ivan the Terrible, nogoodnik Tsar of Russia from 1547 to 1584; Catherine de Medicis, Machiavelli-mentored Queen of France from 1547 to 1589 and noted butcher of Protestants; Abdul-Hamid II, murderous ruler of the Ottoman Empire from...